novelist . playwright . traveler . futurist . feminist

The latest in travel porn.

This time around, my favorite travel toy is the Steripen. It’s straight out of Meena’s futuristic backpack in The Girl in the Road. I had no idea that a thing like this existed in the present day, but here it is—a handheld UV water purification device that is, for all intents and purposes, actually a tiny lightsaber. I used it for the first time on some cloudy tap water from my hotel faucet. It tasted….sterile. So far, so good.

Here is some night action. And here is me laughing manaically because I was thinking “I’m making travel porn” and then couldn’t put the wand in the right hole. I am twelve, basically.